Hello everyone!
I´ve recently come back to this community after a long absence and this is my first time participating in the postcard exchange. So please, allow me to be a little poetic about it, just for a second.
This has been such a rewarding experience! On so many levels. I send out a big thank you to
@koraks and
@Daniela who suggested I should try this.
The first thing that comes to mind about this experience is an Arcade Fire song called "We used to Wait". We never put pen to paper anymore, our lives and feelings now go through keyboards and fiber, I've been feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve, waiting for the mailman to pass by my box. I'd forgotten how much fun this is!
26th feb. - @Todd Barlow - Received your Landscape Truck Detail and I like this kind of photographs so much! I often find myself shooting this kind of details
27th feb. - @MattiS - Received your "Winter"! Beautiful image! I would think that this was the norm for you in Winter, rather than a rare occasion. Here in Portugal, we might find this kind of scenario in Serra da Estrela (the highest point in Portugal), on particularly cold winters, but very rare.
28th feb. - @drpsilver - Received your Cloud Drama - I also love to get dramatic skies on my photographs, but I don't think I've ever been blessed with one.
5th mar. - @mfohl - Received your Patriotic Pickup - Such a great picture. It looks like an old friend that the owner could not part with.
All the postcards arrived in perfect conditions, some of them with handwritten messages which I loved and thank you, for taking the time to do so. I have them all on display in a cupboard where I keep some of my most prized possessions, such as drawings my daughter gave me through the years.
I have been hard at work these last few days, going through my negatives and looking at everything with such a different perspective comparing to how I looked at them back when I shot them. So many of them never saw the "light of day" so to speak. I do believe the company I kept at the time was a bit toxic. Too much peer pressure to only show your best, and your best never seemed to be good enough. I find now that I discarded most of my pictures because I was looking at them through everybody else's eyes and with everybody else's opinion in mind and not my own, not even thinking of the reason why I took those images in the first place.
I am looking at them with my own eyes right now. I am up to 70 images that I find I would like to share and never did. I still have a few rolls to go.
I will probably be posting a lot of them in a few weeks.
I am doing my best to mail my postcards before the end of the month.
Thank you all once again.
Monica
Thank you!
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I've been swamped, sorry for not getting back to all.
How nice to get to "rediscover" your own work. Happy printing and posting!
